Conversations + Workshops
Visual Collaborations
Project Guidance
About
Contact
All Projects
Living With Yards: Negotiating Nature and the Habits of Home
Ursula Lang
Yards are not quite wild, yet rarely tamed. This book chronicles the interplay between the yard as habitat and our inhabitation of it, exploring the changes and innovations a better understanding of urban living might spark.
Ursula Lang uses the yard as a faceted lens through which to examine the multiple and contradictory ways people live in urban environments, and how perceptions of those environments are shaped by contemporary environmental policies and projects.
Visual ethnography and narrative illustrate how inhabitants of Minneapolis live with their yards as sites of social and environmental care while also negotiating difference. By conducting in-depth visits to more than forty yards and sharing her findings, Ursula provokes us to think about what else these realms of daily life might become.
- Kathleen Stewart, Anthropologist, University of Texas
“Living with Yards offers a considerable measure of realistic hope for a more sustainable shared future.”
- Peter Graham, Sustainability scholar, Concordia University
(2022) McGill-Queen’s University Press, 199pp.